News from Italy
The Euro Weekly News reports on the most up to date news in Italy so that it’s readership can stay up to date with all the latest developments in countries near and around Spain.
€80m Renaissance masterpieces stolen from Sicily museum despite working alarms and guards on duty
Four Renaissance masterpieces worth up to €80 million vanished from a Sicilian museum as a religious procession filled the streets outside, yet the thieves left...
Shell-shocked tourists rub their eyes at bizarre invasion across Pompeii’s ancient streets
Holidaymakers stepping into Italy's most famous archaeological site this summer will rub their eyes in disbelief. Behind the ancient stone columns, travellers are stumbling across...
Italian diver thought it was a rock, then saw hundreds of Roman jars from 2,000 years ago
Giacomo De Mola had gone out to scan fishing grounds before a competition, not to hunt for antiquities. But his accidental find, 46 metres below...
Shocking video shows tourist dangerously trapped on rocks at famous Italy spot
What was supposed to be a day beside one of Italy’s most spectacular seaside spots took a startling turn when a tourist found herself scrambling...
Mount Etna eruption leads to Catania Airport chaos as ash plume reaches 7,300 metres
Holidaymakers heading to Sicily face severe travel chaos following a dramatic nighttime eruption from Mount Etna, forcing aviation bosses to shut down Catania airport. Lava fountains...
The shocking Booking.com scam leaving tourists with nowhere to stay
Imagine arriving in Rome after carefully planning your holiday, only to discover that the apartment you paid for does not exist, and that the apparently...
Rome and Milan are trialling a new way to make summer nights unforgettable
Picture cooler air, quieter piazzas and a famous skyline glowing under perfectly positioned floodlights. Italy has given travellers a fresh reason to swap the midday...
Woman accidentally throws away €1 million lottery ticket. Bin men help her get it back.
Imagine throwing away €1 million. A woman in Italy recently did exactly that when she binned her winning lottery ticket, not realising it was worth...
4.3 earthquake rocks Pisa as crowds rush into streets and trains grind to a halt
Office workers, court staff and residents suddenly found themselves out in the street while railway passengers waited for engineers to inspect the tracks. The shallow...
€670,000 mystery deepens: Beachgoers find shopping bags full of cash floating on shore
Shopping bags stuffed with nearly €670,000 washed up on a busy Sicilian beach this week after the crew of a broken-down speedboat chucked them overboard...
Naples shaken by strongest quake in 40 years as Campi Flegrei rumbles
A powerful 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Campi Flegrei volcanic area west of Naples late on Friday evening, sending people pouring into the streets and...
Monks in Florence stumble on a 19th-century recipe that could shake up the story of the world’s favourite fizzy drink
An old archive clean-up inside a centuries-old Florentine convent has just thrown up a surprise that is turning heads outside of Italy. Dusty discovery in a...
Tourists queue for hours for the perfect shot of Italian mountain and locals have had enough
Patience is running thin at the foot of one of Europe's most photographed mountainsides. Visitors keep queuing for hours anyway, just to catch a ride...
Florence to open Italy’s first prevention centre for digital addiction
Something different is opening in Florence that speaks to every parent who has ever worried about a child’s screen time. A new model for tech prevention...